The hitch in this theory is the word used in the Genesis creation account to denote "day" is the Hebrew word, "yom". When this word is used in other places in Scripture, including references to the creation, it denotes a 24 hour day. This word would have to have a non-literal meaning in subsequent verses in the creation account, despite the fact that it's initial use Genesis 1:5 defines the period as a daily, cyclical sequence. It is used thereafter in that context as well the other places in Scripture. Genesis is also specific in emphasizing the term "morning and evening" as it goes through each "day". That is the same definitive time period in each case.
The order of creation given in the Scriptures is the same as the order that creatures arise as given by the theory of evolution.
Well, not exactly. On the "third day", He created vegetation. Then on the "fourth day", He created the sun, moon and stars. If these days are "eons", the vegetation would not have survived through the eons of darkness without sunlight, which is necessary for survival.
The Bible is short on detail about how God created the universe.
True. It is clearly not meant to be an extensive account but the outline. But what it says in Genesis is profound and is backed up in many other Books of Scripture as a miraculous "creation" by God himself. There is no evidence in Scripture supporting God using evolution as a method. That has to be assumed into the account.
You miss my point. I too am saying that the creation occurred during literally six 24 hour periods. These periods were 24 hours from the reference frame of the early universe, however. 24 hours in early universe = several billion years now. Another example of this type of phenomenon: Suppose you get on a very fast spaceship and fly to Alpha Centuri and back. When you get back, I ask you how long your trip took. You say it took 3 days. My calendar says it is now 2014, so I say it took a bit over 9 years. Who is right? We both are. 3 days from your frame of reference is equal to 9 years from mine. As far as your reference to vegitation, there certainly could be vegitation surviving before the sun was created; it could have arisen on planets other than ones in our solar system. Vegitation was created after there was light. One of the hypotheses regarding the origin of life on earth is panspermia, which holds that life came to earth from space. Do we know that this is incorrect? At this point, no. This isn't mentioned in the Bible, but many things that are now known to a pretty high degree of certainty are similarly unmentioned. General relativity, quantum theory, atomic theory, and the inverse square formula for universal gravitation are not mentioned in the Bible. The Bible is not a science text. It is apparent that evolution can be true at the same time as the Bible.